Examples of various ceramic inlaid tile patterns in the old singing school of Worcester cathedral. Inlaid tiles, or encaustic tiles as they are also called, are fired clay tiles with a simple pattern picked out in a clay inlay of a contrasting colour, usually white on a red ground. The tile showing a shield with the lion rampant depicts the armorial bearings of Richard Plantagenet, first Earl of Cornwall (1209-1272), son of King John. These patterns, are considered to be late thirteenth or early fourteenth century, the period of the English Gothic style of architecture. They illustrate a small section of the whole room in which the paving is made up of numerable sets of encaustic tiles framed by black tiles. Details from: Glossary of Terms used in Gothic Architecture, 4th Edition 1855 John Henry Parker. | |
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